With the overall objective of gathering information concerning employer's attitudes, perceptions, and opinions of Ohio's vocational education program, along with insights as to the strengths and weaknesses of the program and how it might be improved to more fully meet the needs of Ohio employers, mail questionnaires were sent to the personnel departments of 1,000 firms randomly selected from the "Directory of Ohio Manufacturers." The sample included both employers who utilize and those who do not utilize vocational education graduates. The five basic types of question sets developed to provide the data base were attitude questions, attribute importance questions, employee rating questions, open-ended questions, and classification questions. After gathering the data, the attitudinal statements, rankings of employee attributes, and ratings of vocational education and other graduates on each employee attribute were analyzed first for the total sample of 251 respondents and then for individual employer classification variables such as size of firm, percentage of employees who are vocational education graduates, and types of employees utilized. Results showed that attitudes toward and perceptions of vocational education were, in general, quite favorable. Percentages of agreement on some key statements were (1) about 60%--experience with vocational education graduates has been quite favorable, (2) 76%--vocational education students should be given more practical experience in their training, (3) 13%--vocational education students are poorly trained in school, (4) 74%--vocational education needs to have an improved image, and (5) 73%--I would like to know more about this State's vocational education program. This report contains complete explanations of the objectives, research methodology, results, conclusions, and recommendations. (WL)